CITY WITHOUT WALLS: And Other Poems.

First edition, first printing. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. In the dustwrapper, a little rubbed to spine tips, folds and corners. Not price-clipped (20s / £1.00 net to the front flap).

Auden's final book of the 1960s is a generous and various collection including tributes to Neville Coghill and Marianne Moore (on their retirement and eightieth birthdays respectively), a number of songs, including English versions of Eight Songs from Brecht's 'Mother Courage', and a film commentary commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada concerning athletics (!) which, as Monroe Spears noted in his review of the book (Yale Review, Autumn 1970), might be seen as "a modern equivalent of Pindar's [Ancient Greek] odes praising athletes". The first UK edition of 'City Without Walls' was published on 15 September, 1969, in an edition of 5000 copies (seemingly preceding the US edition, which isn't mentioned in Bloomfield's bibliography). (Bloomfield A63a).